Search Results

The tower stands 121ft high, and the church can seat up to 1,700 people. A famous curate was the Reverend Richard Barham, who later moved to Romney Marsh and wrote the 'Ingoldsby Legends'.

The tower of St Peter's can just be seen above the roofs on the right-hand side of the picture.

This photograph shows the imposing west tower, which was built about 1500, and which still stands almost to its full height.

Compared with its setting, the tower and church are rather plain but inside are wagon roofs, bench ends and a restored rood screen. The granite font has carved angels with outspread arms.

At St Helen's Church the corbelled, pinnacled and crocketed tower stands out in more ways than one: it seems curiously at odds, in size and style, with the rest of the church.

In 1775 a brick tower-mill was built near the crossroads by John Matchett, a Colchester millwright.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

This was the entrance from Lumley Road to what is now Tower Gardens, before the frontage was built up with shops and cafés.

The clock tower of Burnley Town Hall can be seen in the distance (right), and on the extreme right the Kwik Snaks café is visible.

In the distance, and slightly to the left of the clock tower, is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell. Another famous son of the town was J Logie Baird, the inventor of television.

Brodick was enlarged when garrisoned by Cromwell's troops, and the tower is a mid 19th-century addition.

The earliest parts of the castle are the hall and a small tower, both dating from the 12th century.

The square tower projects to cover the entrance, and is equipped with long arrow slits. The original entrance was barrel-vaulted.

This is a brick tower mill with eight patent shuttered sails and a fantail.

The central tower rises 250 feet into the sky, and was conceived as a memorial to Queen Victoria.

Tower Street housed the armoury for the West Yorkshire Volunteer Artillery, and the York Volunteer Rifles were in St Andrewgate.

The tower and spire were added in the 15th century; the spire rises to a height of 120 feet. Some of the most beautiful stained glass in England adorns the windows of the building.

This view looks across the River Ise towards the parish church with its graceful 15th-century tower and tall recessed spire.

The abbey was embellished by its lofty twin towers in the early 1700s.

Note the Malvern Hills in the distance, and the tower of St John's Church, adding interest to this view of Worcester Bridge, which had been substantially widened just a few years before the picture was

The tower and spire were added later.

St Stephen's has a west tower with a spire and was almost entirely altered internally in the late Victorian period.

The zoo opened at the north end of Regent's Park in 1828, and two years later the Royal Menagerie was added, to be joined by the animals which had formerly been kept at the Tower of London.

It is from its tower that the Great Bell of Bow is still rung on special occasions.